London Renaissance Seminar: In Search of Early Modern Honey
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
The organisation of the beehive, the mysterious manufacture of honey, nectar collection - - from antiquity, these had provided ways of thinking about human societies and about the creative process. This event will look at the interplay in early modern culture between this long tradition and the discoveries of the ‘new science.’ Download a programme.
1.30-2 Tea and Coffee
2-2.30 Laurence Totelin (Cardiff): ‘The Poor Man’s Bees’
2.30-3 Noah Moxham (St Andrews): ‘Hartlib’s Reformed Commonwealth of Bees’
3-3.30 Discussion
3.30-4 Tea and Coffee
4-4.30 Philip Hardie (Cambridge): ‘ Creatures Great and Small: some images of bees in seventeenthcentury literature and art’
4.30-5 Discussion
Speakers: Philip Hardie (Cambridge), Noah Moxham (St. Andrews), Laurence Totelin (Cardiff)
Organiser: Caroline Spearing (KCL, carolinespearing@me.com)
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman